"As a Muslim country, we will not permit laws that allow gays to marry".
This is about laws that allow racist acts to go unpunished.
Unfortunately, far too many states have laws that allow citizens to carry concealed weapons.
Twenty states have open enrollment laws that allow children to transfer from district to district.
The country needs laws that allow gun ownership, but laws that also control their sale and use in careful ways.
This happens even though we have laws that allow borrowers to declare they can't pay the loans back.
In December the government gave final approval to laws that allow same-sex couples to marry and to adopt children.
And in 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress could prohibit medical marijuana, despite some state laws that allow it.
Florida and Texas, for example, have homestead laws that allow primary residences to be excluded from lawsuits.
State laws that allow judges to exempt minors from statutory-rape charges are called, naturally, "Romeo and Juliet provisions".
Some states have laws that allow police to seize firearms when responding to domestic-violence incidents, but most do not.
